Re: problems with long files

From:

Nicolas Sceaux

Subject:

Re: problems with long files

Date:

Fri, 04 May 2007 18:57:57 +0200

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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin)

Joe Neeman <address@hidden> writes:
> I recently discovered that the new page-breaking algorithm is slow when there
> are many small scores. As a workaround, put
> \paper {
> #(define page-breaking optimal-page-breaks)
> }
> at the top of the file.
I've recently faced the case where the page breaker (or so it seems)
actually does not finish its job. That was with a ~100-score book, on a
machine with 3Gbytes of RAM, with LilyPond 2.11.23. After the last
"Preprocessing graphical objects...", the lilypond process uses ~1Gbyte
of memory, then slowly increases up to using all the memory available,
wthout finishing.
nicolas